The Craftsman, Volume 14United Crafts, 1908 An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living. |
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Page 267 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page 426 - How can the life of the farm family be made less solitary, fuller of opportunity, freer from drudgery, more comfortable, happier, and more attractive ? Such a result is most earnestly to be desired. How can life on the farm be kept on the highest level, and where it is not already on that level, be so improved, dignified and brightened as to awaken and keep alive the pride and loyalty of the farmer's boys and girls, of the farmer's wife, and of...
Page 523 - I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero, then; thou hast the world under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time write: 'It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.
Page 99 - I trust that more and more our people will see to it that the schools train toward and not away from the farm and the workshop. We have spoken a great deal about the dignity of labor in 'this country; but we have not acted up to our spoken words, for in our education we have tended to proceed upon the assumption that the educated man was to be educated away from and not toward labor. "The great nations of medieval times who left such marvelous works of architecture and art behind them were able to...
Page 135 - One sees a poor, heavily laden creature with a bundle of fagots advancing from a narrow path in the fields. The manner in which this figure comes suddenly before one is a momentary reminder of the fundamental condition of human life, toil. On the tilled land around, one watches figures hoeing and digging. One sees how this or that one rises and wipes away the sweat with the back of his hand. " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
Page 328 - a great master of technique" but "like nearly all the other very modern Frenchmen ... he feels that sickening malevolent desire to present the nude (especially women) so vulgarized, so hideously at odds with nature, as to suggest . . . the loathsome and abnormal, and both with a marvel of execution and a bewildering cleverness that somehow fills one with a distaste for art and life.
Page 426 - How can life on the farm be kept on the highest level, and, where It is not already on that level, be so Improved, dignified, and brightened as to awaken and keep alive the pride and loyalty of the farmer's boy* and girls, of the farmer's wife, and of the farmer himself?
Page 135 - The manner in which this figure comes suddenly before one is a momentary reminder of the fundamental conditions of human life — toil. On the tilled land around, one watches figures hoeing and digging. One sees how this or that one rises and wipes away the sweat with the back of his hand. In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.
Page 230 - It is not once in a generation that a woman so subverts her essentially characteristic outlook on life to her work that her art impulse becomes universal as that of the greatest men often is. One feels that Cecilia Beaux has done this in her portrait work, as George Eliot did in her stories.
Page 4 - Wrapt with his sons in fate's severest grasp : The serpents, twisting round, their stringent folds Inextricable tie. Such passion here, Such agonies, such bitterness of pain, Seem so to tremble through the tortured stone, That the touched heart engrosses all the view.